Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; 1. ‘The Display of Woman's Naked Mind to the Gaze of the World’: Harriet Martineau and the Press, 1830-1834; 2. Martineau, the Press, and Jacksonian America; 3. American Notes and the ‘frightful engine’ of the Press 1324. ‘Yield to the mighty mind of the Popular Instructor’: Print and the Press in Martin Chuzzlewit; 5. ‘Called hither by the commotion of the times’: Martineau and the Press, 1837-50; 6. The Factory Controversy: ‘What I dread is being silenced’; 7. The End of Whig History: Dickens, Martineau and the Mid-Victorian Press; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.